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peterh
peterh
1:37 AM
@KyleKanos Not once happened to me this sequence: 1) I write a comment 2) others say, it would be a good answer 3) I write it as an answer, and delete the comment 4) the answer gets a lot of downs, and yet more others say, how bad is this answer. | Since then, I am careful, except of course if I know that the answer will be voted down, but I feel it should be written. But this case was not that.
 
danielunderwood
danielunderwood
2:37 AM
Woah if you xor a character in 8-bit ascii, you just change the case...neat
*xor a space with a character
 
 
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Sir Cumference
Sir Cumference
4:43 AM
Aw man
NewAlexandria only got 14% of the votes
But in seriousness congrats to the winners
 
 
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Secret
Secret
5:50 AM
I wonder when can people develop a theory that describes the dynamics of all possible paradigm shifts
I guess the first thing that need to be solved is: What kind of mathematical space do paradigms themselves live in
 
 
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Novalium Company
Novalium Company
7:03 AM
@JakeRose Donno I have no questions for now. :)
 
 
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Novalium Company
Novalium Company
9:11 AM
What is the velocity called when an object can't go faster because air is stopping it?
 
dsm
dsm
terminal velocity
 
Captain Bohemian
Captain Bohemian
I wonder why there is a SE site dedicating to topics regarding WordPress, which is just a website for blogging? How could such a website have so many issues worthy to be discussed that a site can form for it?
 
dsm
dsm
 
Captain Bohemian
Captain Bohemian
I used to blog in WordPress, but afterwards I blog in CiteYouLike and Quora.
Regrettably CiteYouLike can't be accessed from April 11.
 
Captain Bohemian
Captain Bohemian
9:54 AM
@dsm is the following incorrect? "This WordPress site stat shows that there are 70.5 million new posts and 52.1 million new comments every month. That literally amounts to 27 new posts and 198 new comments every second!"
 
Captain Bohemian
Captain Bohemian
10:12 AM
in my impression, there has never been anybody commenting on my posts in WordPress or Quora or CiteYouLike.
 
 
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JMac
JMac
11:56 AM
@CaptainBohemian That math makes no sense... If there are 70.5 million new posts a month, and 52.1 million comments a month, how the heck can they have ~7x as many comments as posts per second, while having 0.73 as many comments as posts per month. I'm not sure how they ever reached that conclusion with those numbers
 
Captain Bohemian
Captain Bohemian
12:26 PM
@JMac I wonder the same. I guess they type wrong somewhere.
 
 
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Captain Bohemian
Captain Bohemian
2:18 PM
the admission decision takes as short as 6 to 7 days.
 
Semiclassical
Semiclassical
2:31 PM
Hi chat
 
dmckee
dmckee
2:55 PM
@PM2Ring There is an exercise in Townsend in which you compute the momentum/time scale necessary to do exactly that using the doors of the lecture hall as the slits.
I used it as an in-class group question when I was doing "flipped" classes and the students always gave it their undivided attention.
I usually ruled out cats under 1 kg mass, because using kittens is just too cruel.
2
 
 
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Emilio Pisanty
Emilio Pisanty
4:48 PM
0
A: Does a homogeneous oscillating electric field produce a magentic field?

Emilio PisantyBasically, what you're saying is that a homogeneous electric field $\vec{E}(\vec{r},t)=\cos \omega t \ \hat {z}$ in vacuum requires you to have a magnetic field that satisfies $$ \nabla \times \mathbf{B} =\frac{1}{c^2}\frac{\partial \mathbf{E}}{\partial t}, $$ giving you a non-homogeneous magneti...

man, that was a lot of fun to write
 
ACuriousMind
ACuriousMind
5:07 PM
@EmilioPisanty It was?
 
Emilio Pisanty
Emilio Pisanty
Yes. Yes it was.
 
ACuriousMind
ACuriousMind
I'm trying to see what was so exceptionally fun about it compared to other answers, but I'm coming up blank
 
SDFG
SDFG
Can anyone help me out here?
 
 
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Danu
Danu
6:13 PM
o/
 
Kyle Kanos
Kyle Kanos
\o
 
David Z
David Z
6:41 PM
@CaptainBohemian It's not just a website for blogging, it's also a fairly complex piece of software.
 
Physics Meta
Physics Meta
6:52 PM
0
Q: Are we going to enforce the prior research aspect of good questions or not?

Bill NA question was asked about resistance and voltage today which struck me as off-topic because of no apparent research. Also, there was no conceptual discussion which indicated a difficulty about understanding. At this Meta question the PSE community lays out a comprehensive discussion about suff...

discussion homework-and-exercises
 
Sir Cumference
Sir Cumference
Will 0celo return in a week
That's the question
 
dmckee
dmckee
@ACuriousMind I sometimes get a kick out of writing simple answers when (A) it took me longer to understand than seems reasonable and (B) it's not something I've addressed over and over again.
 
bolbteppa
bolbteppa
7:18 PM
@SirCumference gone from undergrad to grad, I think so
7 days
 
Sir Cumference
Sir Cumference
Wait really?
Huh wow I guess that is true
 
JMac
JMac
Yeah, all the answers I've really enjoyed writing here probably look like nothing special, but they are usually questions that got me to learn something, or figure out a new way to conceptualize something that I hadn't considered before
 
Physics Meta
Physics Meta
7:32 PM
0
Q: ask to have a quastionable activity reviewed

kamranI have seen some similar questions answered by a certain same person. And when I post my answer, it immediately get voted down by that person before even enough time for them to see it. They may be gaming the system. whom should I talk to, to take a look into it.

bug activity check
 
 
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Emilio Pisanty
Emilio Pisanty
9:11 PM
@dmckee it's more the tongue-in-cheek-ness that made it fun
 
enumaris
enumaris
9:41 PM
wahhhhluigi
 
 
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Mo_
Mo_
11:01 PM
@JMac well, this is not going to be too worrying given the experience of electing a troll as the president of the United States, and more recently a comedian in Ukraine ;)
 

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